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Bleeding edge technology is a category of technologies so new that they could have a high risk of being unreliable and lead adopters to incur greater expense in order to make use of them.〔 The term ''bleeding edge'' was formed as an allusion to the similar terms "leading edge" and "cutting edge". It tends to imply even greater advancement, albeit at an increased risk because of the unreliability of the software or hardware. The first documented example of this term being used dates to early 1983, when an unnamed banking executive was quoted to have used it in reference to Storage Technology Corporation. By its nature, a proportion of bleeding edge technology will make it into the mainstream. For example, electronic mail (email) was once considered to be bleeding edge. ==Criteria== A technology may be considered bleeding edge where it contains a degree of risk, or, more generally, there is a significant downside to early adoption, such as: *''Lack of consensus'' – competing ways of doing new things exist and there is little to no indication in which direction the market will go. By its very nature, consumers and firms will be unfamiliar with the product and its relationship to existing technologies,〔 leading to rapid changes in what is considered best practice as more becomes known about the technology's qualities.〔 *''Lack of testing'' – The technology may be unreliable,〔 or simply untested.〔 *''Industry resistance to change'' – trade journals and industry leaders have spoken against a new technology or product but some organizations are trying to implement it anyway because they are convinced it is technically superior. *The term was coined and first appeared in print in an article called "Rumors of the Future and the Digital Circus," written by Jack Dale published in Editor & Publisher magazine February 12, 1994. The full quote is "...a bleeding edge technology --- technology that is so far ahead of the cutting edge of consumer acceptance that the project hemorrhages money and resources in an unstaunchable flow." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bleeding edge technology」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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